INSYS Sales Exec Was Addicted To The Drug He Promoted

s a district sales manager for Insys Therapeutics, Jeffrey Pearlman led a team that aggressively pushed doctors to widely prescribe the company’s highly addictive opioid painkiller Subsys. He even threatened to stop paying a nurse speaking fees if she didn’t help boost sales of the drug, emails show.

All the while, Pearlman held a secret: He himself was addicted to opioids like the very ones he was promoting.